Problem with chinese fileNames inside a zipfile

Question

Hi all
I have a really strange problem . I needed to create a zip file(English name) and add a chinese file to that Zip . I had done this using java.uti.zip and in the output zip file i am seeing a totally different chiense name than what i had expected . My code looks like this
String fileName = "������";(Chinese fileName)
File zipFile = new File("abc.txt");
ZipOutputStream zipOutStrm = null;
BufferedInputStream in = null;
try
int length = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
zipOutStrm = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("abc.zip"));
ZipEntry zipe = new ZipEntry(fileName);
zipOutStrm.putNextEntry(zipe);
in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(zipFile));
length = in.read(buffer);
while(length != -1)
zipOutStrm.write(buffer, 0, length);
length = in.read(buffer);
catch(FileNotFoundException e)
e.printStackTrace();
catch(IOException e)
e.printStackTrace();
finally
try
in.close();
zipOutStrm.closeEntry();
zipOutStrm.close();
catch(Exception e)
//do nothing ;
Later i found out from the sun site that there is some encoding issues with the way java does the zip and winZip encoding .
Can any one let me know how to come out of this ??

Answer 1

The file name encoding issue with ZIP is basically: The encoding of file names in ZIP-files is not specified and when non-ASCII file names came along each and every zip-utility solved it in a different way, some did not solve it at all, some store it in ISO-8859-1 (= no chinese), some store it in UTF-8 (I think Java does this), others might have other strategies ...
So if there is a way to not use non-ASCII characters in your zip-files you greatly enhance the portability of your programm.